On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell <[email protected]> wrote: > So, you might have 'curses' or 'ncurses' installed, but you also need > 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-dev' (I don't know the correct name). > > You'll probably need several such packages. The following is probably > your easiest approach: > >> Matt Wozniski wrote on February 11th: >> >> > Or just "sudo apt-get build-dep vim" to get all of the dependencies >> > needed to build the version that's in the repositories. In theory, >> > that might not be all of the things you need to build a vim that >> > you're ./configuring yourself, since it won't include headers needed >> > for features that aren't compiled into vim-gnome. In practice, >> > though, vim-gnome includes nearly all features, so that's not really a >> > problem. At the very least, it's the best jumping off point, since >> > the worst case is that you need to track down one or two more missing >> > packages.
Unfortunately, that only works on deb-based systems, not RPM ones. I'd hope that RPM based systems have something similar, but I don't know about it; all of the Linux systems I've ever admin'ed have been Debian-derived. ~Matt -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
